Database Maintenance Plans

Hello all, I seem to be having some trouble with maintenance plans which
are to backup all my user dbs.
The plan worked before, backing up all the user dbs daily. However,
recently, I have noticed the dbs are not getting backed up. The latest
backup was on Sept. 21, 2004. I have not made any major changes, so I
don't know why the plan stopped working all of a sudden.
If I go to SQL Server Agent > Jobs > Right click on my backup job > View
Job History > Turn on show step details
I see two steps repeated many times
Step 0: The job failed. The Job was invoked by Schedule 30 (Schedule 1).
The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).
Step 1: Executed as user: sa. sqlmaint.exe failed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error
22029). The step failed.
I have tried creating a new job and set the time to run within a few
minutes, but it does not run. I believe the reason for this is because
under 'Next Run Date' it says (Date and time are not available). I have
also tried simply right clicking the job and clicking Start Job. This
appears to do nothing.
I have looked up numerous MS Knowledge Base articles
(http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;288577) and
various newsgroup postings, but none seem to really cure my problem.
One thing I have accomplished was backing up the dbs manually using
sqlmaint in a command prompt. I went to SQL Server Agent > Jobs > Opened
my job properties > Steps > Edit and found the TSQL script:
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlmaint N'-PlanID
1D626322-E403-4065-A37C-EE5F8B9BC2E0 -To "hkim" -Rpt
"d:\mssqldata\MSSQL\LOG\user dbs4.txt" -DelTxtRpt 4DAYS -WriteHistory
-BkUpMedia DISK -BkUpDB "E:\sqlback" -DelBkUps 3DAYS -BkExt "BAK"'
I modified the line to:
sqlmaint -PlanID 1D626322-E403-4065-A37C-EE5F8B9BC2E0 -To "hkim" -Rpt
"d:\mssqldata\MSSQL\LOG\user dbs4.txt" -DelTxtRpt 4DAYS -WriteHistory
-BkUpMedia DISK -BkUpDB "E:\sqlback" -DelBkUps 3DAYS -BkExt "BAK"'
and ran it in a command prompt. The backups were created without any
problems. So why can't I create backups using Enterprise Manager >
Database Maintenance Plans?
I am running MS-SQL 2000 (8.00.760) on Windows 2000 Server.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Harry
Have you verified that the SQL Server Agent is running?
Tom
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
Toronto, ON Canada
www.pinnaclepublishing.com
"Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081056070.1087@.pastpower.ne t...
Hello all, I seem to be having some trouble with maintenance plans which
are to backup all my user dbs.
The plan worked before, backing up all the user dbs daily. However,
recently, I have noticed the dbs are not getting backed up. The latest
backup was on Sept. 21, 2004. I have not made any major changes, so I
don't know why the plan stopped working all of a sudden.
If I go to SQL Server Agent > Jobs > Right click on my backup job > View
Job History > Turn on show step details
I see two steps repeated many times
Step 0: The job failed. The Job was invoked by Schedule 30 (Schedule 1).
The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).
Step 1: Executed as user: sa. sqlmaint.exe failed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error
22029). The step failed.
I have tried creating a new job and set the time to run within a few
minutes, but it does not run. I believe the reason for this is because
under 'Next Run Date' it says (Date and time are not available). I have
also tried simply right clicking the job and clicking Start Job. This
appears to do nothing.
I have looked up numerous MS Knowledge Base articles
(http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;288577) and
various newsgroup postings, but none seem to really cure my problem.
One thing I have accomplished was backing up the dbs manually using
sqlmaint in a command prompt. I went to SQL Server Agent > Jobs > Opened
my job properties > Steps > Edit and found the TSQL script:
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlmaint N'-PlanID
1D626322-E403-4065-A37C-EE5F8B9BC2E0 -To "hkim" -Rpt
"d:\mssqldata\MSSQL\LOG\user dbs4.txt" -DelTxtRpt 4DAYS -WriteHistory
-BkUpMedia DISK -BkUpDB "E:\sqlback" -DelBkUps 3DAYS -BkExt "BAK"'
I modified the line to:
sqlmaint -PlanID 1D626322-E403-4065-A37C-EE5F8B9BC2E0 -To "hkim" -Rpt
"d:\mssqldata\MSSQL\LOG\user dbs4.txt" -DelTxtRpt 4DAYS -WriteHistory
-BkUpMedia DISK -BkUpDB "E:\sqlback" -DelBkUps 3DAYS -BkExt "BAK"'
and ran it in a command prompt. The backups were created without any
problems. So why can't I create backups using Enterprise Manager >
Database Maintenance Plans?
I am running MS-SQL 2000 (8.00.760) on Windows 2000 Server.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Harry
|||Yes it is running
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:

> Have you verified that the SQL Server Agent is running?
> --
> Tom
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Columnist, SQL Server Professional
> Toronto, ON Canada
> www.pinnaclepublishing.com
>
> "Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081056070.1087@.pastpower.ne t...
> Hello all, I seem to be having some trouble with maintenance plans which
> are to backup all my user dbs.
> The plan worked before, backing up all the user dbs daily. However,
> recently, I have noticed the dbs are not getting backed up. The latest
> backup was on Sept. 21, 2004. I have not made any major changes, so I
> don't know why the plan stopped working all of a sudden.
> If I go to SQL Server Agent > Jobs > Right click on my backup job > View
> Job History > Turn on show step details
> I see two steps repeated many times
> Step 0: The job failed. The Job was invoked by Schedule 30 (Schedule 1).
> The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).
> Step 1: Executed as user: sa. sqlmaint.exe failed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error
> 22029). The step failed.
> I have tried creating a new job and set the time to run within a few
> minutes, but it does not run. I believe the reason for this is because
> under 'Next Run Date' it says (Date and time are not available). I have
> also tried simply right clicking the job and clicking Start Job. This
> appears to do nothing.
> I have looked up numerous MS Knowledge Base articles
> (http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;288577) and
> various newsgroup postings, but none seem to really cure my problem.
> One thing I have accomplished was backing up the dbs manually using
> sqlmaint in a command prompt. I went to SQL Server Agent > Jobs > Opened
> my job properties > Steps > Edit and found the TSQL script:
> EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlmaint N'-PlanID
> 1D626322-E403-4065-A37C-EE5F8B9BC2E0 -To "hkim" -Rpt
> "d:\mssqldata\MSSQL\LOG\user dbs4.txt" -DelTxtRpt 4DAYS -WriteHistory
> -BkUpMedia DISK -BkUpDB "E:\sqlback" -DelBkUps 3DAYS -BkExt "BAK"'
> I modified the line to:
> sqlmaint -PlanID 1D626322-E403-4065-A37C-EE5F8B9BC2E0 -To "hkim" -Rpt
> "d:\mssqldata\MSSQL\LOG\user dbs4.txt" -DelTxtRpt 4DAYS -WriteHistory
> -BkUpMedia DISK -BkUpDB "E:\sqlback" -DelBkUps 3DAYS -BkExt "BAK"'
> and ran it in a command prompt. The backups were created without any
> problems. So why can't I create backups using Enterprise Manager >
> Database Maintenance Plans?
> I am running MS-SQL 2000 (8.00.760) on Windows 2000 Server.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Harry
>
|||Do you have any entries in the SQL Server or SQL Agent error logs - or the
Windows event logs?
Tom
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
Toronto, ON Canada
www.pinnaclepublishing.com
"Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081204240.1323@.pastpower.ne t...
Yes it is running
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:

> Have you verified that the SQL Server Agent is running?
> --
> Tom
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Columnist, SQL Server Professional
> Toronto, ON Canada
> www.pinnaclepublishing.com
>
> "Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081056070.1087@.pastpower.ne t...
> Hello all, I seem to be having some trouble with maintenance plans which
> are to backup all my user dbs.
> The plan worked before, backing up all the user dbs daily. However,
> recently, I have noticed the dbs are not getting backed up. The latest
> backup was on Sept. 21, 2004. I have not made any major changes, so I
> don't know why the plan stopped working all of a sudden.
> If I go to SQL Server Agent > Jobs > Right click on my backup job > View
> Job History > Turn on show step details
> I see two steps repeated many times
> Step 0: The job failed. The Job was invoked by Schedule 30 (Schedule 1).
> The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).
> Step 1: Executed as user: sa. sqlmaint.exe failed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error
> 22029). The step failed.
> I have tried creating a new job and set the time to run within a few
> minutes, but it does not run. I believe the reason for this is because
> under 'Next Run Date' it says (Date and time are not available). I have
> also tried simply right clicking the job and clicking Start Job. This
> appears to do nothing.
> I have looked up numerous MS Knowledge Base articles
> (http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;288577) and
> various newsgroup postings, but none seem to really cure my problem.
> One thing I have accomplished was backing up the dbs manually using
> sqlmaint in a command prompt. I went to SQL Server Agent > Jobs > Opened
> my job properties > Steps > Edit and found the TSQL script:
> EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlmaint N'-PlanID
> 1D626322-E403-4065-A37C-EE5F8B9BC2E0 -To "hkim" -Rpt
> "d:\mssqldata\MSSQL\LOG\user dbs4.txt" -DelTxtRpt 4DAYS -WriteHistory
> -BkUpMedia DISK -BkUpDB "E:\sqlback" -DelBkUps 3DAYS -BkExt "BAK"'
> I modified the line to:
> sqlmaint -PlanID 1D626322-E403-4065-A37C-EE5F8B9BC2E0 -To "hkim" -Rpt
> "d:\mssqldata\MSSQL\LOG\user dbs4.txt" -DelTxtRpt 4DAYS -WriteHistory
> -BkUpMedia DISK -BkUpDB "E:\sqlback" -DelBkUps 3DAYS -BkExt "BAK"'
> and ran it in a command prompt. The backups were created without any
> problems. So why can't I create backups using Enterprise Manager >
> Database Maintenance Plans?
> I am running MS-SQL 2000 (8.00.760) on Windows 2000 Server.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Harry
>
|||There doesn't seem to be any relevant information in the SQL Server log.
For the SQL Agent logs, isn't it what I originally posted? Or do I find
this somewhere else. Windows Event Log gives me:
SQL Server Scheduled Job 'DB Backup Job for DB Maintenance Plan 'user
dbs'' (0x9AC86DAEC2694A469BADFCFAD9063C53) - Status: Failed - Invoked on:
2004-10-08 01:00:00 - Message: The job failed. The Job was invoked by
Schedule 30 (Schedule 1). The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).
(The event ID is 208)
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:

> Do you have any entries in the SQL Server or SQL Agent error logs - or the
> Windows event logs?
> --
> Tom
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Columnist, SQL Server Professional
> Toronto, ON Canada
> www.pinnaclepublishing.com
>
> "Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081204240.1323@.pastpower.ne t...
> Yes it is running
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:
>
>
|||Right click on SQL Server Agent in EM. Click on Display Error Log. I the
drop-down, select All Types. See if anything pops out.
Tom
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
Toronto, ON Canada
www.pinnaclepublishing.com
"Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081307240.1373@.pastpower.ne t...
There doesn't seem to be any relevant information in the SQL Server log.
For the SQL Agent logs, isn't it what I originally posted? Or do I find
this somewhere else. Windows Event Log gives me:
SQL Server Scheduled Job 'DB Backup Job for DB Maintenance Plan 'user
dbs'' (0x9AC86DAEC2694A469BADFCFAD9063C53) - Status: Failed - Invoked on:
2004-10-08 01:00:00 - Message: The job failed. The Job was invoked by
Schedule 30 (Schedule 1). The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).
(The event ID is 208)
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:
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> Do you have any entries in the SQL Server or SQL Agent error logs - or the
> Windows event logs?
> --
> Tom
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Columnist, SQL Server Professional
> Toronto, ON Canada
> www.pinnaclepublishing.com
>
> "Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081204240.1323@.pastpower.ne t...
> Yes it is running
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:
(Error
>
|||Yes
There are 12 information messages and 1 warning. No errors.
Is there anything in particular you are looking for?
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:

> Right click on SQL Server Agent in EM. Click on Display Error Log. I the
> drop-down, select All Types. See if anything pops out.
> --
> Tom
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Columnist, SQL Server Professional
> Toronto, ON Canada
> www.pinnaclepublishing.com
>
> "Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081307240.1373@.pastpower.ne t...
> There doesn't seem to be any relevant information in the SQL Server log.
> For the SQL Agent logs, isn't it what I originally posted? Or do I find
> this somewhere else. Windows Event Log gives me:
> SQL Server Scheduled Job 'DB Backup Job for DB Maintenance Plan 'user
> dbs'' (0x9AC86DAEC2694A469BADFCFAD9063C53) - Status: Failed - Invoked on:
> 2004-10-08 01:00:00 - Message: The job failed. The Job was invoked by
> Schedule 30 (Schedule 1). The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).
> (The event ID is 208)
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:
> (Error
>
|||What did the warning say?
Tom
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
Toronto, ON Canada
www.pinnaclepublishing.com
"Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081409270.1410@.pastpower.ne t...
Yes
There are 12 information messages and 1 warning. No errors.
Is there anything in particular you are looking for?
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:
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> Right click on SQL Server Agent in EM. Click on Display Error Log. I the
> drop-down, select All Types. See if anything pops out.
> --
> Tom
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Columnist, SQL Server Professional
> Toronto, ON Canada
> www.pinnaclepublishing.com
>
> "Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081307240.1373@.pastpower.ne t...
> There doesn't seem to be any relevant information in the SQL Server log.
> For the SQL Agent logs, isn't it what I originally posted? Or do I find
> this somewhere else. Windows Event Log gives me:
> SQL Server Scheduled Job 'DB Backup Job for DB Maintenance Plan 'user
> dbs'' (0x9AC86DAEC2694A469BADFCFAD9063C53) - Status: Failed - Invoked on:
> 2004-10-08 01:00:00 - Message: The job failed. The Job was invoked by
> Schedule 30 (Schedule 1). The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).
> (The event ID is 208)
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:
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> (Error
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>
|||[396] An idle CPU condition has not been defined - OnIdle job schedules
will have no effect
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:

> What did the warning say?
> --
> Tom
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Columnist, SQL Server Professional
> Toronto, ON Canada
> www.pinnaclepublishing.com
>
> "Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081409270.1410@.pastpower.ne t...
> Yes
> There are 12 information messages and 1 warning. No errors.
> Is there anything in particular you are looking for?
>
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:
> the
> 1).
> Opened
>
|||Can you run other - non-DBMaint - jobs through SQL Agent? I'm trying to
narrow down the scope of the problem.
Tom
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
Toronto, ON Canada
www.pinnaclepublishing.com
"Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
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[396] An idle CPU condition has not been defined - OnIdle job schedules
will have no effect
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:
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> What did the warning say?
> --
> Tom
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Columnist, SQL Server Professional
> Toronto, ON Canada
> www.pinnaclepublishing.com
>
> "Harry Kim" <heri0n@.pastpower.net> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.60.0410081409270.1410@.pastpower.ne t...
> Yes
> There are 12 information messages and 1 warning. No errors.
> Is there anything in particular you are looking for?
>
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Moreau wrote:
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